Geoff Oelsner doesn’t spend too much time thinking about writing songs. Inspiration, he says, just hits him. He calls them “givens,” and he knows that a gift like that is to be used.
The songwriter releases his second CD of such songs, “Ordinary Mystery,” at a concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Botanical Garden of the [...]
Composer William Grant Still was not born in Arkansas, but he spent many of his formative years in Little Rock.
As for an Arkansan as a respected symphonic music composer, he’s as close we get, says John Jeter, music director for the Fort Smith Symphony.
Under the leadership of Jeter, the symphony has just released the second [...]
Straight Line Stitch will perform at tonight at Drifters, the club. Admission is $10 at the door. The concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
Step back from that ledge, my friend. No need to worry. The wait is almost over. Third Eye Blind is coming here on Tuesday.
Well, as we eluded to in this week’s Listen Here! music column, there simply wasn’t enough room to include all of the details from our e-mail conversation with Brad Hargreaves, the drummer [...]
Carman (born Carman Domenic Licciardello) has been around showbiz long enough to know how this works.
Just standing around and singing isn’t going to cut it. Churches, where the Christian recording artist usually performs, often have their own musicians and no need for such entertainment.
Which is why his act has changed so over the years. The [...]
With nonstandard instrumentation and a knack for songwriting, indie rockers Bowerbirds have caught the ears of several of their contemporaries, earning opening slots for bands such as The Mountain Goats and Bon Iver. The neo-folk trio is touring in support of their summer release “Upper Air,” and on Wednesday (Nov. 18) will appear in the [...]
Stoney LaRue, the Red Dirt rocker scheduled to perform at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville on Saturday (Nov. 7), has postponed the appearance.
According to a message sent out by George’s last evening, the show is being postponed due to “the death of a close friend” of LaRue’s.
LaRue says the following on what appears to be [...]
Nicholas Cords didn’t know much about Persian music. A professional viola player, he had received instruction at some of the best schools — The Juilliard School among them — but they didn’t teach much of it, either.
It wasn’t until he met master kamancheh player and Iran native Kayhan Kalhor that he received a proper introduction.
Since [...]
Those who went to the local Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival may have heard about Pretty Lights, whose set there drew a large crowd. Pretty Lights is producer Derek Smith and, in a live setting such as the one that will take place Thursday night (Nov. 12) at George’s Majestic Lounge, a drummer. Pretty Lights [...]
George Winston must not have been content mastering one style of piano.
So he learned three of them.
The pianist is accomplished as a stride player (think Fats Waller), on New Orleans piano (think Dr. John or Professor Longhair) and a pop style of his own creation he likes to call rustic folk.
He has recorded solo piano [...]